Paper-roll holder



Nov. 8, 1927.

N. s. HILLYARD PAPER ROLL HOLDER Filed Jan. 21. 1927 TTORNEY CII Patented Nev. 8, 1927'.

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NEWTON S. HILLVYARD, OF JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

PAPER-ROLL lIii-IOLDER.

Application filedy January 21, 1927. Serial No. 162,495. i

' invention and is fully described in my Patent No. 1,537 ,673. I wish to state, however, that I am not restricting` my device to use in connection with said holder or any particular type of device, but will claim the structure of a latching means that may be us-eful in many different situations. y

The device which I provide for accomplishing the object stated, and which will be illustrated as associated with a paper roll holder, is installable in a'bracket adapted for pivoting a removably journaled body of a class requiring frequent replacement. The invention comprises a pivoted plate having an exterior lever arm, an expanded portion providing an arm* normally latching the journals of the said body in pivoted position, and a linger thatupon the rotation of the plate for opening the latch to release the journals, is/projected against the journals to eject them from pivotal engagement.

rIhe structure andmode of operation of the invention will be particularly described with references to the drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective'view of my invention installed in a paper roll holder parts of which are broken away.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross sectionalview through the housing and through part of a core. j

Fig. 3 isa sectional view on the line 3 3, Fig. 2. l

Fig. 4 is adetail'perspective view of the locking latch.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of part of one of the housing brackets showing a journal notch for supporting a shaft.

Referring in detail to the drawings:

1 designates a housing comprising bacl wall 2, end walls 3 and a and top wall 5, the housing being open at the front and the bottom and the front being partly framedby an inverted U-shaped strip 6. Bracket plates 7 and 3 are provided with inturned flanges 9 and 10 Von their rear edges of slightly less width than the strip 6 whereby the plates are spaced from the end walls 3 andl l approximately the width of said st1ip,"the franges having outturned edges9 and 10 by which the plates are riveted to the end walls, the front edges of the plates being secured to the strips. 'The plates l7 and 8 have their lower ends bent back upon themselves outwardly to form upwardly-eirtending walls '11 and 12 spaced from and parallel thereto and Y are then bent at right angles outwardly to form stop lips 13 and 111 of width substantial- .ly equal to the flanges 9 and 10, the production of the said parallel walls producing the bottom bends 15 and y16'constituting the lower edges of the newly formed double-walled bracket plates, these bottom bends being spaced from the bottom plane of the'device. The plates 7 and 3 are slitted from the bottom bends 15 and 16 to provide vertical slits 17 and 18 to receive the ends of the sl1aft'19, the upper rends of vthe slits having offset notches 2O and 21 which constitute bearings for the journal ends 22 and 2 3 of thel shaft 19.' The shaft 19 entends through a'hollow,

flat, paper-holding core 24 andis provided with an intermediate enclosed portion offset as at 25 for contact with the sides of the core whereby the Ashaft is forced to rotate with the core, and whereby the shaft limits the rotation of the core upon engagement of right I.

angularly projecting shaft lingers or cranks 26 and 27 on the ends of the shaft with the stop links or 'lianges 13 and 14. The core is provided with a weight 28 for returning it to normal position after limited rotation in the process of functioning.

The shaft 19 is introduced into the bearing notches 2O and 21 by the passing of its vends through the slits 17 and 13 and the shifting of the ends for seating in the said offset bearing notches. The structure just described constitutes the bracket and held elements to which my invention is applied.

My' present invention comprises means for latching the shaft in pivoted position, which functions also as a means of shifting the shaft into the bearing notches and means of dislodging the shaft from the bearings,

as will now be described. I provide latching plate members 29 one of which is shown in Fig. l and having a major body portion 30 and a depending wing 31, a lever leaf 32 and a handle 83 projecting opposilely to the body portion 3( and having an eccentrically incut neck 34. rlhe inner edges ot wing 31 and the lever leaf 32 are so spacedly related that they produce a throat which terminates in a locking socket 36 having a shoulder' 37 adjacent the wingl and a 'tace 38 adjacent the lever leal. The plates 29 are provided with pivot openings 239 adjacent the handle portions for the reception of the pivot pins fl() lined in the bracket plates 7 and 8 and on which the said lalching plate members interposed between the bracket plates and the upbent parallel walls, are pivotally mounted, as suggested by the construction cceentrically so, 'the handles projecting through slots Ll1 et the tlanges 9 and 10. So pivoted, the tendency ot the plates is to maintain and return to a position in which the Wings 31 are depressed. The plates are mounted in such a. position that the lever arms protrude beyond the rear ends ot the bracket plates 7 and 8, the sockets 86 may coincide with 4the ottset notches 2O and 21, and the wings $31 close the slits 17 and 18, the plate being` restrained by the bearing ot the wing 31 on the bent edgesl and 16 of the bracket plates, as clearly disclosed in Fig. 3. It may be noted in said Fig. 3 that the socket 86 does not eircumterentially engage the journals 22 Ot the shaft 19 but that the shoulder 87 ot the socket locks the journal in a notch.

The disclosure by dotted lines in Fig. 3 will assist in describing the mode ooperation of the latching plate member. Upon occasion for removal or a core24, means may be -inserted into the housing 1 trom beneath to actuate downwardly the handle 83, whereupon the lever leat1 32, being pivoted upwardly, bea-rs upwardly and forwardly against the journal seated in the offset notch 20, and moves the journal. out of the notch into the slit 17 through which the journal,

compelled as is the shaft by the weight of? the core, falls and the core becomes available tor replacement `ot an element carried. The plate 29 restores itself to normal posi tion through weight of its body portion causing return pivoting upon release ot' the handle.

The* reverse process calls into functioning other features of the latehing plate. Upon inf-stalling a core in the housing, the journal ends and 23 are projected sinmltaneously Aupwardly into the slits 17 and 18, shitting the wings 3l by forcing the plate topivot; when tire journal ends have been elevated to the terminations ot the slits and seated in the notches, the plates 29 return to normal position, the shoulders 37 of the sockets 36 engaging the journal ends and preventing accidental egress ot the journal ends 'from the notches. Y

lVhat I claim and desireito secure by Letters Patent is:

1. ln a paper roll holder, a housing having edge'slots terminating in offset bearing notches, journals of a. paper roll core iemovably engaged with said notches, and a latch plate pivoted on the housing having` an arm normally closing one of said slots and an arm movable against a journal to disengage said journal.

2. In a paper roll holder, a housing having vertical slots terminating in oiiset bearing notches, a body having journals receivable in the notches and removable through the slots, and latch members pivoted on the housing, a latch member comprising an actuating arm extending within the housing and an arm normally closing oneA of said slots and havinga finger movable across the notch ot said slot to disengage one of said journals.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

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